Most of Refinery is actually just knowing Dynamo really well. The actual ‘use’ of Refinery takes only a few hours to pick up, if that - there aren’t enough buttons to get hung up there. The capability to build a Dynamo graph that flexes to get varying results is MUCH longer then that.

I recommend looking over the materials on the beta site, and finding a simple problem to build out on your own using Dynamo Sandbox (yep skip Revit interaction for now). My first experience to was actually seeing if I could get it to draw a heart…

So while scrolling through Twitter tonight, and saw a bunch of hearts made with Dynamo, so I figured Refinery could use some love. Used number sliders to generate a heart shape based on an ‘ideal’. Random results were sometimes... heartish. Letting it optimize overnight.

This morning's optimization results are in. A "low miss distance" of 4.24 units, with 93.7 comparison points contained. Another highlight was a design with scores of 4.59 | 96.5.
The best I could do last night was 4.91 | 91.5. My score may be influenced by a lack of sleep.